aptly is good. Very good. If you’ve got it installed, use the REST API to get your work done.

  • add package to an aptly repo

    Given a package called apackage.deb and repo arepo that we’ve got on the aptly server itself for convenience, let’s get that up onto our aptly repo using the API.

    • upload a local file to aptly’s staging area

      curl -v -X POST -F file=@apackage.deb http://localhost:8080/api/files/apackage

    • import everything in that directory to a local repo

      curl -v -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/repos/arepo/file/apackage

    • update the published repo from the local repo

      curl -v -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{}' http://localhot:8080/api/publish/arepo/trusty

  • remove package from an aptly repo

    • list packages named apackage with their keys in a repo (remove ?q=[..] to list all packages)

      curl http://localhost:8080/api/repos/arepo/packages?q=apackage

    • delete package from repo by key

      curl -X DELETE -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"PackageRefs": ["Pall apackage 0.1.0 ebcaf7a13cb11e2e"]}' http://localhost:8080/api/repos/arepo/packages

    • update published repo

      curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{}' http://localhost:8080/api/publish/arepo/trusty

  • unpublish a repo

curl -X DELETE -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{}' http://localhost:8080/api/publish/arepo/trusty
  • show packages
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/repos/packages
  • list repos
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/api/repos